Law: Intricacies & Variations

¶ In the State of Sirmur, India, a barber shaving a customer told such
a funny story that the customer jounced with mirth, pushed his cheek
into the barber's razor, suffered a disfiguring wound, sued the barber
for 200 rupees. Ruled the court: no recovery; the barber was following
the traditional practice of his profession; the story was to mitigate
the ordeal of the shave; the customer should have restrained his mirth.

¶ In Graz, Styria, Austria, one Johann Fuchs, accused of killing a
woman of whose child he was the father, came to trial at 9 a. m. in one
of...